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Webster 1913 Edition
Preemption
Pre-ëmp′tion
(?; 215)
, Noun.
The act or right of preemption.
Specifically: (a)
The act or right of purchasing before others.
(b)
The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others.
[Eng.]
(c)
The right of an actual settler upon public lands (particularly those of the United States) to purchase a certain portion at a fixed price in preference to all other applicants.
Abbott.
Definition 2024
preëmption
preëmption
English
Noun
preëmption (plural preëmptions)
- Alternative spelling of preemption
- 1906, Guy Carleton Lee & Francis Newton Thorpe, The History of North America, p255
- All the foreigners who had served therein were entitled to homesteads, many lands were open to preëmption by foreigners…
- 2004, John Wesley Powell, The Arid Lands, p37
- No person can exercise the preëmption right who is already the owner of 320 acres of land.
- 2005, Mari Sandoz, Old Jules, p94
- “If you had two hundred dollars to pay on your preëmption you could borrow some.”
- 1906, Guy Carleton Lee & Francis Newton Thorpe, The History of North America, p255
Related terms
References
- preëmption in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913, see page 1128.